WWW::Mechanize WWW::Mechanize is a handy web browsing in a Perl object.
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WWW::Mechanize is a handy web browsing in a Perl object. WWW::Mechanize is a handy web browsing in a Perl object.SYNOPSISWWW::Mechanize, or Mech for short, helps you automate interaction with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form can be selected, form fields can be filled and the next page can be fetched. Mech also stores a history of the URLs you've visited, which can be queried and revisited. use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get( $url ); $mech->follow_link( n => 3 ); $mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/download this/i ); $mech->follow_link( url => 'http://host.com/index.html' ); $mech->submit_form( form_number => 3, fields => { username => 'mungo', password => 'lost-and-alone', } ); $mech->submit_form( form_name => 'search', fields => { query => 'pot of gold', }, button => 'Search Now' );Mech is well suited for use in testing web applications. If you use one of the Test::*, like Test::HTML::Lint modules, you can check the fetched content and use that as input to a test call. use Test::More; like( $mech->content(), qr/$expected/, "Got expected content" );Each page fetch stores its URL in a history stack which you can traverse. $mech->back();If you want finer control over over your page fetching, you can use these methods. follow_link and submit_form are just high level wrappers around them. $mech->follow( $link ); $mech->find_link( n => $number ); $mech->form_number( $number ); $mech->form_name( $name ); $mech->field( $name, $value ); $mech->set_fields( %field_values ); $mech->set_visible( @criteria ); $mech->click( $button );WWW::Mechanize is a proper subclass of LWP::UserAgent and you can also use any of LWP::UserAgent's methods. $mech->add_header($name => $value);Please note that Mech does NOT support JavaScript. Please check the FAQ in WWW::Mechanize::FAQ for more. Requirements: · Perl

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